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New Exhibition in Hong Kong!
We are happy to announce that Liu Jipiao will be involved in a new exhibition in Hong Kong this summer! We also would like to wish all you dads out there a Happy Father’s Day!
Happy 114th Birthday, BaBa!
Another year has gone by since I wrote about my father on his birthday on June 4th, 2013. Happy 114th Birthday, BaBa!
In Loving Memory of My Mother Suzanne Liou
While this website is primarily about my father’s artwork, with Mother’s Day just past, my thoughts naturally turn towards my mother and the part she played in our lives. So this is in loving memory of my mother Suzanne Liou.
Smith Lecture Video
So as promised here is the link below to the Smith Lecture Video on April 12, 2014. It’s a Google Doc link as the file is too big to upload. There is a short introduction by Fu Ji about the exhibit and overall project and then I’m on. Joan Lebold Cohen follows giving a very…
New Article by Zheng Hongbin
Well I finished my lecture and I just got back into Los Angeles this past week. I still have a lot of notes to go through, emails to write and many thank you’s to send out! I had a wonderful trip and met some great people and reconnected with some old friends! Stay tuned for…
Lecture Accomplished!
So I’m sitting at a cafe at Smith College writing this, finally calm and finally relaxed. Lecture accomplished! I was pretty nervous. I’ve taught and lectured before but it certainly wasn’t as personal. The night before I was up practicing til about midnight but then my brain wouldn’t shut up until 3AM!
First Generation of Chinese Artists in Paris
A talk with Jennifer Wong, granddaughter of the important first generation Paris-trained artist Liu Jipiao (1900-1992), and Joan Lebold Cohen ’54, acclaimed historian of modern Chinese art about the First Generation of Chinese Artists in Paris.
One Year Anniversary!
It’s hard to believe it’s our one year anniversary! A year has past since Jennifer designed and launched this blog as a commemoration to my father’s artwork. She also wanted to have it up and running prior to our first trip to Paris, February 2013. There, we attended Jeff Cody’s presentation of my father’s work,…
China Traveler 1929
As most of you know, we have been searching for my grandfather’s published and original work. About 6 months ago someone kindly gave us the link to a Chinese Book Seller’s Website. We were able to purchase a copy of Eastern Miscellany that focused on the West Lake Expo of 1929. We had also found…
History of Design
Back in May of this year we were contacted by Heather MeCormick, Managing Editor of Textbook Projects at Bard Graduate Center in New York City. She and the editor, Pat Kirkham found our website about Liu Jipiao. They were putting together a text book, History of Design – Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-1900.